The Data files in this zip are:

US_PANEL.dta		US Arrest data by state and year of birth
UK_PANEL.dta		UK Conviction data by region and year of birth 
US_CENSUS.dta		US Census data from IPUMS for 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2008-2012 ACS.

The data are discussed in the Data Appendix to the paper.


The Do files in this zip are:

US_PANEL.do		This replicates the results in Tables 1 and 3 (US Arrest Panel) using US_PANEL.dta
UK_PANEL.do		This replicates the results in Tables 2 and 4 (UK Conviction Panel) using UK_PANEL.dta
US_MICRO.do		This replicates the results in Table 5 (US Census) using US_CENSUS.dta
UK_MICRO.do		This replicates the results in Table 6 (British Crime Survey) - data request needed


Note:

The data used in Table 6 are from the British Crime Survey. This data can be requested from www.dataservice.ac.uk and is made freely available to any academic - subject to accepting the terms and conditions of use. We are not authorised to provide the data directly.